U+11446 "𑑆" Newa Sign Nukta Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑑆
U+11446 "𑑆" Newa Sign Nukta is a diacritical mark used in the Newa script, which is historically employed to write the Nepal Bhasa language. It functions similarly to a nukta or dot below a consonant, altering the sound or indicating a borrowed phoneme, typically modifying the base character to represent sounds not native to the original script, such as those from Sanskrit or other languages. This sign aligns with a common typographic tradition in Brahmic scripts where a small dot or mark is added beneath a letter to produce a distinct phonetic variant, aiding in accurate transliteration and representation of foreign or revised pronunciations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11446 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Newa Sign Nukta |
| Block | Newa |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Nukta |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑑆 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑑆 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x91 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD805 0xDC46 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011446 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud805\udc46 |